Al Cimino
Author
Pub. Date
c2021
Description
The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time. But the truth is few people kill. We occasionally say we could kill someone, but that is usually hyperbole. Most of us can imagine what it might be like to be driven to a senseless act of violence in an unendurable situation. To kill once is one thing; to kill over and over again is quite another. What drives these people who kill and kill again?...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Women commit just 4% of homicides in comparison to men. But this disproportion can make their crimes seem all the more shocking. In this chilling casebook, Al Cimino explores 34 female murderers. From hospital nurses to slaughterhouse workers, the range of women in these pages prove there is no archetypal killer. In some cases, women had suffered years of psychological trauma before their eventual crimes. Other times their heinous acts seemed to spring...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The Schutzstaffel, or SS -- the brutal elite of the Nazi Party -- was founded by Hitler in 1925 to be his personal bodyguard. From 1929, it was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built its numbers up from under 300 to well over a million by 1945. The SS became the very backbone of Nazi Germany, taking over almost every function of state. SS members were chosen not only to be the living embodiment of Hitler's notion of 'Aryan supremacy,' by also to cement...
